The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-22
FlsAUDsON THE MAILS.
The Proprietor OF n Swiniling Farm journal
..r =. ~ Wanted. p. 'u...... '....

CHICAGO, April 2l.--1t 10 stated here to-.
day that the postollice authorities have
stopped the delivery Of registered mail to
I. 8. Gardner and 1everal publications by
the namcs Of tho Farm Journal, Farmers
Album and Farming World.
II is alBo said that tho Department has
determined upon the arrest and prosecu-
tion OF Gardner on the grounds that his
publications are "a BYindle on the public
and a fraud on tho United States mail
SERVICE" - -"
1t 10 claimed TINT Gardner hss for come
time been receiving over fifty registered
lettera a day, each containing d postal
order for from S. to $l2, and has sont out
over 250. 600 circulars and specimen COMES
OF his paper within threo months through
tho second class mail alone.
The head OF the second class mail de-
partment in the Chicago oiiice decided,
some.imo ago, thnt the publications named
were OF the "cash premium" order. Three
weeks ago, in sccordsuce with regula-
ton Of the department, which Gays: III
q postmaster has reason to doubt that q
publication offered as second class matter
has not q legitimate llat OF Bubscribera, he
may require tho publisher thereof 10 satisfy
him that 1t has," the Superintendent
stopped $4,000 copies OF Gardne,'s Farm
Journal and demanded to be shown the
subscribers list. Three weeks have
passed, and the l3. 900 copies are still lying
in the basement Of the pootoilice.
AS Gardner WAS allow furnishing his sub.
acribers' list, the superintendent sent in.
quirlea to ou'eido postmasters regarding
thirty persons to whom tho Farm Journal
was addressed. The names Of these pre-.
sumptive subscribers were selected at ran.
dom from tho 1900 Addressed copies OF
the publication. Replies have been re-
ceiyed from all. II is claimed that twenty.
seven denied being subscribers and three
others admitted having subscribed but
had not yet received the publication.
Every subacTlber wss promised q s. pre-
MUM order-to be cashed later-ior an
outlay oil folty cents, with valuable Jour-
Hs! thrown in for year, and the man who
GOT up a club was 10 get prizs Of from
S25 to $4,000.
From the replica OF Subscribers. il is
claimed that Gardner hal gsut one copy
~ N.o P"Pei y pateiiL lIls!ue 6llcet, SOt I'D
in imitation of genuins per;odical-to
each pereon who replied 10 his original
circular, but had never paid any attention
to. the clubs except to take the money. A
local paper says the postotlice inspectors
have evidence in hand which District At
torney Ewing believes will secure a con.
vic.lon, the inll penalty in which cese will
be ilne OF $500 and eighteen months i'm
prisonment.
Gardner's Offices in this city are in tho
Scott block, corner Of West Van Buren,
street and Hermitage avenue, where he
employs twenty-five to thirty young
women mailing his circulars. Since the
postotiice people here have begun to
make it unpleasant for him, it is stated
that he haa opened up in Cincinnati. His
circulars from that city G:o ornamented
with large pictEro OF u tino business block
Gt the corner Of Sixth and Vine streets.
1t is aaid that the Poa.oAicc authorities
scnt man TO Cincinnati Yesterday to
effect Gardnes's arrest, but they refuse to
give any informbtion.